# 31016

[NOLAN] Harris, Max

The vegetative eye.

$175.00 AUD

Melbourne and Adelaide: Reed and Harris, 1943. Large octavo, printed cloth boards in the original Sidney Nolan illustrated wrappers (foxed), the image also reproduced as a colour frontispiece, 132 pp; internally fine.

The first book by Australian literary figure Max Harris, and the first book cover illustrated by Sidney Nolan. A wartime publication scarce in good condition, published in an edition of 1500 copies (COWLEY, Des, A checklist of Reed & Harris Publications, in The La Trobe Journal No 64, Spring 1999, p. 48).